The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 3

[Steffy]

tink2020... loved your wedding photos. Your flower girl is just adorable. Love the dress. Love all the attendants. Beautiful service. Thanks for sharing....

Hi Jo! I'll call you anything but late to dinner!

Elin,Sounds like you have a lot going on.

Congrats on #8000!

Deb love your shirts.

UpDisney love the hoodie...

I have to get to bed.

 

[rosiejo]

We got married June 5th, 2004. Kyle wanted 8 guys. Period. I wanted 4 or 5 girls and would have been ok with that... but then if I tried to add even one more, I was getting into a circle of friends where they all came together. It really was a blast, and I wouldn't change it if I had to do it over! I just thought he was silly!
It actually ended up fitting well, as the guest number and formality really lent itself to a bigger wedding. I think it was perfect

I take my hat off to you for organising a wedding with that many people and guests! I had enough stress with one bridesmaid the best man and four guests!

 

[rosiejo]

This is a post of one of our family sweatshirts. I have 3 of the 4 done. They turned out pretty good.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=11519775&postcount=9

Turned out just great

 

[rosiejo]

I may have found why I've been so sick for so long....
I scheduled it for Saturday, so if it did stir up a lot of stuff it would die down by Monday. Well, they called me 30 minutes after they started the job to tell me the main duct that branches off to most offices was full of mold/fungus and they couldn't clean it -- it would have to be replaced. What am I most allergic to -- mold/fungus. I'm really hoping once we get that done that most of my sinus/allergy problems will ease up.

While I'm sure it's not a good idea not to follow doctor's advice, I'm glad this time that I did ignore it.

Euch - fungus in the air con doesn't sound good - get them to fix it ASAP and then hopefully you'll be on the mend

 

[rosiejo]

Hi DDA friends... I am popping in to tell you that I am OK before anyone thinks I have disappreared. My dog has been ill the past two weeks and Thursday we had to take her to the vet for a hospital stay while they ran many tests to find out what was wrong with her. DD19 was beside herself because this is "her" dog. So DH and I drove to Richmond Friday a.m. to bring her home from college for the weekend. She wanted to be here in case we needed to make any decisions about Button. Turns out my dear little terrier has Addison's Disease. It is treatable with medication that is HORRIBLY expensive, so we are going to see how it goes over the next few months. We brought her home Saturday afternoon after paying a $500 vet bill and a $75 pharmacy tab and DH took DD back to college this afternoon, in a much better state of emotional health

Meanwhile I have been working 7 days a week with extra lessons and recitals and have managed to get the cold/virus/yuck stuff that is going around. Sore throat (fun to teach music with no voice!), cough, headache, sore throat... all that fun stuff. But it is getting better.

To top it all off, we got hit with about 7 inches of snow and had to cancel 10 recitals today and there is no hope of making them up. So I am scheduling additional private lessons to try to make sure the kids are all ready for Festival. So... I have absolutely no time to read my DIS!!

If anything important happens, someone PLEASE PM me so I don't feel as if I am Rip van Winkle in a few weeks when things start to slow down. And I will send PD to everyone who is sick and best wishes to all who are traveling.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY in case I don't get back here too!

Elin

I'm sending for Button - hope he is ok. Vet's bills can be scarily expensive.

I was thinking of you yesterday - did you get some of those lactase tablets for DD? Are they working?

 

[rosiejo]

The kids came home with a note from school explaining that they are having school spirit week this week. They are supposed to dress to a daily theme. Monday is Formal dress, Tuesday is PJ day, Wednesday is heritage day, Thursday is Disney Day , Friday is crazy clothes and hair day. Deb

What a fun idea for school... and an extreme lack of notice for you to organise outfits! I love the designs for their pjs - I bet none of the other kids have personalised designs.

Can't wait to see pictures... you could post each day so we can see what they wore

 

[rosiejo]

Ok. Question for my DDA friends. What is the name of the flowering tree in Mulan? I'm working on a page and want a picture of one for it. Thanks. Vicki

I'm really not sure... it it a plum blossom tree like this...

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Sending and to everyone. I know you can all use them.

Ok, so I'm not caught up. Not even sure when I last posted. Not sure I am cohrent enough to post. I'm sorry if this post is scatter brained. I just want to update you on my life without breaking down in tears due to frustration.

I have been working too many hours. Plus I had a Brownie sleep over this weekend. Have been sick on and off. Sore throat, earache, nauseous, coughing, I think I might have a sinus infection and I definitely have a fever. I should probably call in sick but I feel way to guilty to do so and after today I think my manager might freak out if I end up sick also.

I am frustrated that today when I went into work my co-worker handed me his keys, said our manager pushed him over the edge and left. *** So now I might be working more hours. I worked almost 70 this week plus planned and held a brownie meeting and planned and held a Brownie sleepover. I really don't think they appreciated it.

Got so much to try and do and so little time. This week I have GS cookie sorting and distribution plus a service unit meeting. Luckily I cancelled the troop meeting, but some parents were giving me grief for it. Hello, we had a sleepover this weekend plus cookie sorting, distrbution and a service unit meeting this coming week. But they just want to have their Wednesday night so they have have their time away from their kid.

I really hope it doesn't snow much because it will make my life harder because I have to go to work whether it snows or not.

My manager stopped in today to attempt to figure out hours to fill in. We didn't get very far. She is doing way too much also. Who knows what is going to happen with filling in the hours. She also does massages. She said I needed a massage. I said she needed a massage. We both decided we need a massage and to get away.

Plus my circle journal which has been booknapped and the person said they were going to release it reccently has yet to do so.

Plus my Grandfather is in the hospital with gout and his heart rate had been at 168 beats per minute. He isn't doing that well. This is a bad time for him to be sick like this because 3 years ago my other grandfather died around this time and we had his funeral on Valentine's day. I am hoping to not have a repeat.

I wish I could just hop on a plane and go anywhere away from here. I need a spontaneous trip, road trip or whatever. I just need to get away.

I am so . I am really bad about getting my feelings out and I always get to the point where I break down and just cry for hours. But I am not there yet so my frustration level just builds and I don't know how to reduce it. I try things but they never seem to work. I know I just need to cry but I am not there yet.

Sorry to blab on and on. It's so sad I am apologizing in my own venting. I don't know how to say no and I always feel everything is my fault.

Becky

That's why we are here...

 

[Cinderumbrella]

OK.
The D is final.
I still need to wait for these things to go through.
Before we can move.

House to sell before we can go anywhere.
I can't pay a morgage & rent.

Child support to go into inforcement.
Garnish from his paycheck, direct deposit to my account.
Before we can move out of state.

We are hoping all goes through fast.

I feel free , but still trapped.

Good luck ... there is a light at the end of the tunnel...

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Wanted to share something I saw on the TAPS board just in case you might not have seen this. It sounds like a doable thing for anyone to do. I think I will give this a try also while we are there.

Paying it Forward.. with Fastpass"

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My husband had a great idea that I think you might all like.

For the past few years, ever since Disney started the fastpass system, when we are ready to leave the park for that day, we get fastpasses for one of the hard to get onto attractions.

As we are exiting, we give the fastpasses away to a family on thier way into the park at that time.

It is fun to share the magic of Disney by giving these tickets away to someone for them to enjoy. The reactions we have experienced are wonderfully rewarding.

In MK we like to get Peter Pan's Flight ( always a long line) and give them to a family with young children.

At Disney MGM Studios, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster or Tower of Terror are our choices.

Epcot attractions we have done are Test Track and Soarin' .

In DAK we usually get Kilimanjaro Safari but I imagine Everest would be even better.


So... My challange to you all is to begin "Paying it Forward.. with Fastpass" yourselves. I am sure you all will find it as rewarding as we do.

Spread some Pixie Dust "Pay it Forward.. with Fastpass"

Have fun!

We had this happen to us when we were there in October- someone gave us there's for the Jungle Cruise (which was a 45 minute wait and FP return wasn't for 2 hours) We were tickled pink!!

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Ok. I think I have officially become a Disney Design Addict. I was putting some autograph pages together and saw this clip of Alice. My mind immediately came up with some ideas for a t-shirt and voila an hour later - here it is. I didn't think I had a creative bone in my body!!!! Who knew??

It's supposed to have a "dreamy" quality to it.

And so it begins... Great job!!!

 

[Cinderumbrella]

I may have found why I've been so sick for so long.... I normally get a sinus infection about every other month, but I've had three since December. I went to my allergist, who wasn't helpful. My internist is actually who has been seeing me for the SI's. I told him that I was sick of being sick, so my husband and I had bought an elliptical for the house, both for better health, weight loss, but also because the doctor's said it would help thin mucas etc.. I also bought one of the Ionic breeze machines because they are supposed to help. Then I told him I was going to have the airducts cleaned at work. It's a building dating back to 1910, and we've been in it 17 years and never had them cleaned. He told me not to do it. Well, I went ahead anyway because I felt like it was better to get all the stuff out of there.

I scheduled it for Saturday, so if it did stir up a lot of stuff it would die down by Monday. Well, they called me 30 minutes after they started the job to tell me the main duct that branches off to most offices was full of mold/fungus and they couldn't clean it -- it would have to be replaced. What am I most allergic to -- mold/fungus. I'm really hoping once we get that done that most of my sinus/allergy problems will ease up.

While I'm sure it's not a good idea not to follow doctor's advice, I'm glad this time that I did ignore it.

Wow! I really hope this does it!!!

 

[Cinderumbrella]

I'm playing catch up again. It's been very busy around here, but I'm not really sure why? . The Nor'easter that hit the "entire northeast" missed us completely. We ended up with barely a dusting in central VT. The weather here has been so strange. We have had no snowmobiling, sledding or winter fun here. Any skiing in Vermont is on manmade snow that has to be replinshed at night because we are getting 40+ degree weather many days. When it is warm out the kids can't go out to play because everything becomes mud and if it isn't warm it is so cold that going out is no fun. We are so ready for Spring.

The kids came home with a note from school explaining that they are having school spirit week this week. They are supposed to dress to a daily theme. Monday is Formal dress, Tuesday is PJ day, Wednesday is heritage day, Thursday is Disney Day , Friday is crazy clothes and hair day. They have dress shirts and ties for tomorrow. Tuesday is another issue. My kids are very warm blooded so they usually sleep in their underwear. They have one piece fleece sleepers for when they are actually cold and they have shorty pjs for when they actually want pjs. They told me that they can't wear one piece pjs as they are to babyish and obviously it is too cold for shorty pjs. So we talked about me making them some sleep pants and designing t-shirts to match. Long story short I ended up checking JCPenney's to see what they had and walked in on 75% clearance and someone leaving the store handed me a 20% coupon. I found sleep pants for $3.09 a pair after all the discounts. I bought other pjs and shirt and sweatshirts for next year. I found a pair of NewBalance sneakers for $5.59 for Colby. I ended up spending $215 on about 60 items for my kids for next winter and saved over $1200. I was so happy. Gotta love a good deal. I ended up buying Nick a pair of orange sleep pants with chopper style motorcycles on them and Yu Gi Oh sleep pants for Hunter. I bought an orange long sleeved ringer T for Nick and a light blue sweatshirt for Hunter. We spent the evening making designs to iron on their shirts. This is what we came up with:

To go with the orange chopper sleep pants:

To go with the blue Yu Gi Oh! sleep pants:

I put Hunter's name at the bottom. I was trying to make it look like the Yu Gi Oh! logo. They really like them and I think that they are very practical for school. I'll try to take a photo of them wearing them on Tuesday.

Deb

Cute!!!!

 

[Cinderumbrella]

And so ends my posting party (again )...

 

[marcij]

Good Morning, DDA!

 

[lmartin2711]

Good Morning Everyone...........kind of checking in late today and now I just remembered I have a 11am meeting this morning. I will check back with ya'll later.

Lynn

 

[triplefigs]

Hi, everyone. Trying to catch up but there's about 50 pages I haven't read. I skimmed trying to find the "big" events. Anyone care to do a cliff notes version for me?

I did see:

Brendita: congrats on the D. Glad it went smoothly. Hope the house sells soon and that your DS is ok.

Kristine, so sorry about Bill's dad. You're in my prayers.

Jennifer, beautiful wedding pics. How gorgeous are you!

Steffy, glad your Dad's b'day was good and you made it home safely.

Deb, love the pj tops. No snow? Figured you'd get a ton.

Elin, hope your puppy feels better.

Now, I know I missed a ton of regular DDAers there, so please fill me in on the rest of the gang!

Just been nuts around here. Rees' lawyer meeting is tomorrow. He's had a bad 2 weeks, trying to get all the stuff for his school eval. That's why I'm not on much. Just a little stressed and taking a breather. I"m actually really depressed about Rees right now. It'll get better, but it is really hard to be a parent to a special needs child at times. I wouldn't trade it for anything, but it isn't always as easy as one would hope.

 

[tink2020]

I'm playing catch up again. It's been very busy around here, but I'm not really sure why? . The Nor'easter that hit the "entire northeast" missed us completely. We ended up with barely a dusting in central VT. The weather here has been so strange. We have had no snowmobiling, sledding or winter fun here. Any skiing in Vermont is on manmade snow that has to be replinshed at night because we are getting 40+ degree weather many days. When it is warm out the kids can't go out to play because everything becomes mud and if it isn't warm it is so cold that going out is no fun. We are so ready for Spring.

The kids came home with a note from school explaining that they are having school spirit week this week. They are supposed to dress to a daily theme. Monday is Formal dress, Tuesday is PJ day, Wednesday is heritage day, Thursday is Disney Day , Friday is crazy clothes and hair day. They have dress shirts and ties for tomorrow. Tuesday is another issue. My kids are very warm blooded so they usually sleep in their underwear. They have one piece fleece sleepers for when they are actually cold and they have shorty pjs for when they actually want pjs. They told me that they can't wear one piece pjs as they are to babyish and obviously it is too cold for shorty pjs. So we talked about me making them some sleep pants and designing t-shirts to match. Long story short I ended up checking JCPenney's to see what they had and walked in on 75% clearance and someone leaving the store handed me a 20% coupon. I found sleep pants for $3.09 a pair after all the discounts. I bought other pjs and shirt and sweatshirts for next year. I found a pair of NewBalance sneakers for $5.59 for Colby. I ended up spending $215 on about 60 items for my kids for next winter and saved over $1200. I was so happy. Gotta love a good deal. I ended up buying Nick a pair of orange sleep pants with chopper style motorcycles on them and Yu Gi Oh sleep pants for Hunter. I bought an orange long sleeved ringer T for Nick and a light blue sweatshirt for Hunter. We spent the evening making designs to iron on their shirts. This is what we came up with:

To go with the orange chopper sleep pants:

To go with the blue Yu Gi Oh! sleep pants:

I put Hunter's name at the bottom. I was trying to make it look like the Yu Gi Oh! logo. They really like them and I think that they are very practical for school. I'll try to take a photo of them wearing them on Tuesday.

Deb

Those are great! Please do post pictures with the boys in their full PJ outfits! How cute!

 

[tink2020]

Ok, so nobody talk this afternoon, ok?

I'm skipping class because Kyle turned my alarm off. When I called him this morning he said, "with as little sleep as you've been getting the last few days, if you were up to go to class you could have. if you weren't up, then that means you were sleeping -- which you need. i don't care when you sleep, as long as you get some. don't worry about it"

But now I'm a little stressed. Not that I'll probably miss much as the professor just talks in circles and never gets to the material.... but I still feel like I should be productive while I'm home!

Doctor's report: sinus infection, double ear infection, bronchitis. Don't be jealous Actually, don't feel bad at all. This happens yearly... just usually in January. Just a day or two now, and I should be back to normal.


Have a good afternoon, just don't distract me!

 

[tink2020]

Denise -- PMing you